Remove yourself from Google and Bing
Search engines surface your data, but they don't host it. The durable fix is removing the source — the broker page publishing your information. The search-engine cache clears after that. Here's the right sequence for both Google and Bing.
Run my free exposure scan →Why your name is on Google in the first place
Google and Bing don't hold your data — they index it. Your name appears in search results because a data broker published a page about you first. Google crawled that page, indexed it, and now serves it to anyone who searches for you.
That's why asking Google to remove the result — without removing the broker page behind it — doesn't hold. The broker page is still live. Google or another search engine will re-index it within weeks. You've cleared one result temporarily; the source keeps feeding new ones.
The sequence that actually works:
- Remove the source. Opt out of every broker site publishing your data. See the data-brokers hub.
- Then clear the search-engine cache. Submit removal requests to Google and Bing so the stale URLs drop from results faster than their natural recrawl cycle.
Step two alone is whack-a-mole. Step one alone leaves stale results surfacing for weeks. Both steps together close the loop — and Delist handles the broker layer automatically, so you're not filing each opt-out by hand.
Google Search
Google's "Results about you" tool (launched 2022, expanded 2024) removes URLs from Google Search results when those URLs contain specific categories of personal information. Filing is straightforward once you have the broker URLs from your scan.
What Google will remove:
- Home address, phone, email
- Government ID numbers (SSN, license, passport)
- Bank or credit-card numbers
- Login credentials
- Confidential medical or health records
- Sexually explicit images posted without consent
- Doxxing content posted with intent to harass
What Google won't remove: opinions, criticism, public-records info from official government sources, legitimate news context.
Use our Google removal helper →Full step-by-step guide →
Bing
Microsoft's Bing offers a "Content Removal Request" tool covering similar categories to Google: personal contact info, identifiers, financial info, non-consensual images.
The Bing tool is at bing.com/webmaster/tools/content-removal. It asks for more documentation than Google's flow and takes longer — typical response is one to three weeks.
Bing's index also feeds DuckDuckGo, Yahoo Search, and Ecosia. A successful Bing removal usually clears those downstream engines too.
File the Bing request in parallel with your Google request — not sequentially. There's no reason to wait.
Open Bing's removal tool →DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Ecosia, Brave Search
Most of these don't have their own removal tools — they don't need to. They license results from Google's or Bing's index, so a successful removal at those two engines propagates automatically:
- DuckDuckGo — primarily Bing-indexed.
- Yahoo Search — Bing-indexed.
- Ecosia — Bing-indexed.
- Brave Search — partially independent index; also has its own removal form.
Two independent indexers worth knowing about: Yandex and Baidu run their own crawlers and don't reliably honor US removal requests. Not worth the time for most people unless you have a specific reason to care about visibility there.
How Delist handles the search layer
Delist's primary work is the broker layer — filing removals at the sites that publish your data. That's where the exposure lives. The search-engine cleanup follows:
- Once a broker has been opted out, if Google is still surfacing the stale URL, we submit a Google removal request.
- For high-priority exposures — address, phone, or SSN visible in obvious doxxing content — we use both Google and Bing's expedited tracks.
- When new URLs appear under your name in future scans, we treat them as new broker exposures: opt out at the source first, then clear the search cache.
Find the source, then clear the results
A free scan finds every broker URL appearing under your name — the same list you need for the Google and Bing removal forms. Start there.
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